What makes nginx faster than Apache’s original design? What makes Node.js applications faster than traditional web applications? How can we achieve the same benefits for our own web applications? But also, isn’t PHP too slow? Learn how to empower your own web-based projects with the help of awesome open-source solutions. This talk reveals how we can leverage event-driven programming principles to build high performance, non-blocking, reactive, concurrent, single-threaded, async web applications (bingo). Don’t worry, no need to install Node.js and `npm install` half the internet. Let’s get started and build high-performance applications with everybody’s favorite language: PHP!